Word: popes
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...year 1492 was Spain's annus mirabilis, a year of marvels. A Spanish Pope was elected that year, a Borja from Catalonia. (He was called Borgia in Italy, where the Two Sicilies already had Spanish rulers.) King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had just united their kingdoms, drove the Moors from the Spanish peninsula by a military victory at Granada. Spain's Jews were expelled in the same year, solidifying the Inquisition's power...
Columbus was part of all this. He would supply the Spanish Pope with information that led to the partition of the New World into Spanish and Portuguese spheres in 1493. He was with his monarchs at Granada to celebrate the Moorish victory, and he saw the last Jews depart from Seville harbors the day before he set out on his first journey west. He viewed this concatenation of events as a sign of the world's fulfillment, and predicted that the gold he brought back would finance an ultimate Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land...
...people turn, en masse to charismatic and demagogic figures like Boris Yeltsin, or worse. They are not naive, but they will be increasingly desperate. When Poland's Lech Walesa promises a return to that old-time Catholic state, the youth grumble, Jeff Sachs pulls at his hair, and the Pope comes to town. Who listens? Those who don't know any better or those...
...spun-sugar hat, pastel coat anchored by a huge, gem-laden brooch and a dusting of ostrich feathers; Diana in her elegant column of silk or her inspired off-duty wardrobe (including a Philadelphia Eagles jacket). These women just don't take a bad picture. Perhaps only the Pope is as photogenic...
...erudition. Ed was a writer in the Nation section in 1961 when he was called on to produce the Man of the Year cover story on John F. Kennedy. Versatility being another Jamieson trait, the next year he wrote an equally fine Man of the Year story on Pope John XXIII...